From: Maurice A. O'Sullivan (mauros@iol.ie)
Date: Sun Feb 27 2000 - 19:18:36 EST
<x-flowed>In today's edition of Ha'aretz, there is a story about rival claims for the
place at which Jesus was baptised.
The story [ at:
http://www3.haaretz.co.il/eng/scripts/article.asp?mador=5&datee=02/27/00&id=70396
includes this passage:
Furthermore, on the opposite bank of
the Jordan from Qasr al-Yahud, the Jordanians
have been developing their own sacred baptism
site. At a place known as Wadi Harar,
approximately two kilometers east of the river, the
remnants of an ancient church have been found.
Jordanian tourism officials based themselves on a
verse from the New Testament: "All this happened
at the home of a poor woman on the other side of
the Jordan, at the place where John the Baptist
was." According to this verse, John the Baptist
was east of the Jordan, and the Jordanian tourism
minister managed to convince the pope to visit
there.
Anybody have a notion what verse the Jordanians are relying on?
Maurice
Maurice A. O'Sullivan [ Bray, Ireland ]
mauros@iol.ie
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